A decades-old plane crash leads Du Pr ťo possible murder, and to a landowner with dark secrets. Officially, Gabriel Du Pr ǐs the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure that no one tries to sell cattle branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows' backsides. The barren country around Toussaint is too vast for the town's small police force, and so, when needed, this hard-nosed hybrid...

In the first novel, two activists are killed and four others die in a storm that could have been avoided, and in the second novel, Gabriel Du Pré must journey inside a serial killer's mind as he follows a trail of corpses.

In Montana, PI Gabriel Du Pre, a metis cattle inspector, investigates the death of a snowmobiler who was shot in the back. The victim was carrying the tooth of a dinosaur, a fossil worth a lot of money.

When Gabriel Du Pré investigates the brutal death of an old woman and encounters two teenagers skulking about at the scene of the crime, Gabriel must race to catch a killer who has a penchant for fire.

When his Montana prairie home is besieged by out-of-towners pursuing a rumor about the lost journals of Lewis and Clark, Gabriel Du Pré finds himself having to protect loved ones who would become casualties of the search.

While searching for a missing girl, Gabriel Du Pré finds his investigation complicated by the arrival of a group of protesting fundamentalist Christians and the return of his precocious granddaughter from school in Washington, D.C.

"When a hunted military whistleblower and his family need someplace to hide and someone to trust, Toussaint, Montana, is the place, and Gabriel Du Pre the man. The Metis Indian former cattle inspector and sometimes deputy is happy to offer protection, even though he's already got his hands full with an ailing granddaughter, a meddling medicine man, and a Kazakh eagle hunter prowling the hills above town. As a guard at a Kabul prison, Hoyt Poe witnessed...